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Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • describe how cultural and societal factors shape some core psychological processes, namely how people think, remember and perceive the world
  • describe some different cultural approaches to wellbeing
  • understand how early life experiences impact infant development, specifically how early visual and auditory experiences shape cognitive and language development in infants
  • recognise the historical limitations of early psychological research and how this has affected psychology’s understanding of human behaviour
  • appreciate the importance of incorporating diverse cultural perspectives in psychological research.
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